Senior Financial Analyst

Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) — a world-renowned education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York — seeks an enthusiastic, dedicated, and mission-aligned Senior Financial Analyst to support our Finance Department.

The Senior Financial Analyst will bring a passion for the mission of Harlem Children’s Zone: break the cycle of intergenerational poverty with comprehensive, on-the-ground programming that builds up opportunities for children and families to thrive in school, work, and life.

We are seeking a talented individual to join HCZ’s finance team. This individual will join as a Senior Financial Analyst assisting in budget development, financial management, forecasting, and analytics. This position will also work closely with senior-level staff, with exposure to the CFO.

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Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, information systems or other quantitative discipline.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in corporate financial planning including planning, budget management and variance analytics.

Who You Are

• Strong familiarity with ERP systems, non-profit accounting, and Excel
• Detail-oriented self-starter, with the initiative to drive projects to conclusion timely
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written), including the ability to balance business partnership with accountability and create rapport with non-financial colleagues.

What You’ll Do

• Assist the Director of Financial Planning and Analytics in maintaining financial models and preparing budgets and forecasts
• Prepare regular financial reports and ad-hoc reports including variance analysis
• Assist with preparation of management presentations for board meetings and executive leadership
• Develop and implement innovative solutions to identified issues and/or areas for improvement; develop relevant financial analyses to address identified issues
• Support KPI dashboard creation and management processes
• Identify, recommend and implement process improvements
• Proactively share insights with accounting to support the closing process and grants management
• Collaborate and communicate with finance partners across HCZ
• Perform other duties as assigned

Schedule:

• Monday through Friday

Benefits

As a member of the Harlem Children's Zone team, you will join a supportive and inclusive community dedicated to helping children, families — and our staff — thrive. We offer highly competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for growth.

Our exceptional full- time benefits include:

• Highly competitive base salaries
• Paid time off
• Employee referral bonus
• Career advancement
• No-cost health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-and long-term disability
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Wellness discounts
• Commuter benefits
• Financial wellness perks
• Additional Benefits (Discounts on flights, hotels, theme parks, concert tickets, and more.)

The starting salary is $90,000 per year. To be considered, interested applicants must submit a cover letter and resume. No telephone inquiries or recruiters, please. Replies will only be sent to qualified applicants. HCZ is an EOE.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)